On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fortran definitely has a place here in the math department, however, I > believe this is in part due to a lack of C/C++ ability, at least in > most cases. People use what they learn, but it would be better, IMO, > to learn what is best for the job. Yeah I didn't think about that... some languages are simpler, less expressive in syntax but more easily learned. They may be more appropriate for non-programmers (well, non-specialists in programming). I think Perl is the most expressive language I've learned... but I quickly amassed a level of knowledge of its syntax that, while a Perl novice could likely understand my code, it is unlikely that they could maintain it. Any BASIC or Fortran code that I ever wrote could be easily maintained by novice programmers. -- John. _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
